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Mastering Metasploit

You're reading from   Mastering Metasploit Discover the next level of network defense with the Metasploit framework

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786463166
Length 440 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Nipun Jaswal Nipun Jaswal
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Approaching a Penetration Test Using Metasploit FREE CHAPTER 2. Reinventing Metasploit 3. The Exploit Formulation Process 4. Porting Exploits 5. Testing Services with Metasploit 6. Virtual Test Grounds and Staging 7. Client-side Exploitation 8. Metasploit Extended 9. Speeding up Penetration Testing 10. Visualizing with Armitage

Advanced post exploitation with Metasploit


In this section, we will use the information gathered from basic commands to achieve further success and access levels on the target.

Migrating to safer processes

As we saw in the previous section, our meterpreter session was loaded from a temporary file. However, if a user of a target system finds the process unusual, they can kill the process, which will kick us out of the system. Therefore, it is a good practice to migrate to a safer process, such as explorer.exe or svchost.exe, which evades the eyes of the victim, by using the migrate command. We can use the ps command to figure out the PID of the process we want to jump to, as shown in the following screen:

We can see that the PID of explorer.exe is 1896. Let's use the migrate command to jump into it, as shown in the following screenshot:

We can see we successfully managed to jump into the explorer.exe process.

Tip

Migrating from one process to a another may downgrade privileges.

Obtaining system...

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